On 09/28/2013 04:04 AM, David L. Craig wrote:
On 13Sep27:2054+0530, Balamurugan wrote:On 09/27/2013 04:08 PM, David L. Craig wrote:Your fact is not. I installed Debian Sid on a G500 a few months ago and it dual-boots with Win8. The trick is to use the smaller alternative power button to the right of the large power button, which ignores Legacy. Perhaps other Lenovo laptops are not so equipped but the G500 is.Hi David, Till last month, I have installed close to 10 installations of GNU/Linux OS as dual boot with Windows OS(XP and Windows 7). This particular Lenova Laptop which had Windows 8 installed in UEFI mode had issues in installing Ubuntu. When I try to insert the Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) in USB boot stick, it is not even recognizing the OS. The machine detects Ubuntu only when I turned off UEFI to Legacy mode. In the same time, I purchased my own laptop (Dell vostro 2420) which was pre-installed with Ubuntu. When I checked that, it was turned to Legacy boot by default. Also as per the technical journals I read, GNU/Linux don't have their own UEFI authorizing keys. Can you please correct me with some more details, If I am wrong.I am at a disadvantage because I relinquished the laptop about a month ago to be returned to Lenovo for warranty repair and the memory is somewhat dim. The BIOS was configured for Legacy boot. I enabled USB booting in the BIOS as needed and kept it normally unenabled. I installed Linux Mint XFCE into a hard drive partition. I discovered the main power button will always boot up Win8 in UEFI mode but the smaller power buttona, designed for the Lenovo One-Key recovery facility, brings up a boot menu that includes the hard drive partitions and USB drives if such are configured as bootable. I hope this is helpful.
Hi David,What you have said is correct. I also followed the same method you followed. The problem here is, we need to change the bios setting every time to toggle between Windows 8 and Ubuntu. Ubuntu starts in Legacy and Windows 8 starts in UEFI boot mode. I was thinking whether there is any procedure to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 8 in the same UEFI boot mode itself but unfortunately I haven't figured it out. Thank you for your details :-)